Israeli Protests Target Netanyahu, Visiting Pentagon Chief at Airport

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Reuters

By Dedi Hayoun BEN GURION AIRPORT, Israel (Reuters) -Israelis protesting judicial reforms sought by the hard-right government converged on the country’s main airport on Thursday in a bid to disrupt a trip abroad by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as well as a visit by the U.S. defense secretary. Defying a heavy police deployment, convoys of cars flying blue-and-white national flags packed the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway and streamed toward Ben Gurion Airport’s main terminal. A second terminal was unaffected, a Reuters witness said. Some local media said Netanyahu and his retinue sidestepped t…

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